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Imagine we're in the 1930s, and you've been tasked with engineering a vehicle capable of traversing or crossing the Antarctica's freezing vast wastelands.

Why

There was a global race to claim areas of the Antarctica with the promise of massive oil, coal, and mineral reserves under the ice.

So, where would you begin?

This is how the Antarctic Snow Cruiser was born.

It was a 55 ft long, 20 ft wide, weighing more than 34 tonnes, it was designed to hold five explorers who worked and slept aboard while exploring the uncharted regions of Antarctica.

The massive Antarctic Snow Cruiser was designed and built from 1937 to 1939 by scientists and engineers at Chicago’s Armour Institute of Technology intended to facilitate transport in Antarctica during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939 – 1941).

In addition to all of the instruments and tools required for such a journey, the Snow Cruiser also carried a survey plane tied to its roof.

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser as it appeared on August 16, 1940, immediately after emerging from its winter berth.


https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-antarctic-snow-cruiser-updated/424851/

A huge snow and ice cruiser designed for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition was unveiled in model form in Chicago on July 14, 1939, by its designer Dr. Thomas Poulter.

Chicagoans got their first good look at the giant snow cruiser built for the Admiral Byrd Antarctic expedition when it was rolled out of the Chicago construction yards on October 24, 1939.

The Antarctic snow cruiser, designed by the search foundation of Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, undergoing tests in the dunes near Gary, Indiana, on October 26, 1939, while en route to Boston then to the south polar areas.

Admiral Byrd’s snow cruiser passes through traffic and onlookers before halting for the night in Framingham, Massachusetts, on its way to Boston, on November 12, 1939. Traffic was snarled for 20 miles in a jam that involved 70,000 automobiles. Note the two spare tires visible in the rear compartment of the cruiser.

The controls of the snow cruiser, with Dr. F. A. Wade (foreground), chief scientist of the U.S. Antarctic service, and Harold Vagtborg, director of the Armour Institute of Technology Research Foundation.

On the docks in Boston in November of 1939.

The North Star carrier and the Snow Cruiser arrives in Antarctica, moored to ice on January 15, 1940.

Here, crew members are waiting for the Snow Cruiser to mount the wooden ramp during offloading.

The Snow Cruiser drives away from the North Star carrier after offloading.

The crew of the Snow Cruiser photographed in Antarctica on September 20, 1940.

From left, C.W. Griffith, diesel mechanic; F. Alton Wade, comm.; Felix L. Ferranto, radio operator; and T.A. Petras, pilot of the Snow Cruiser plane.

Sergeant Felix Ferranto, radio operator, works with a primus torch to thaw out the wheel motors of the Snow Cruiser on August 23, 1940. The air temperature was -50 Fahrenheit (-45 Celsius) at the time.

Crew member T.A. Petras stands behind the Snow Cruiser on September 20, 1940.

The Snow Cruiser, to be abandoned, on December 22, 1940.



The massive Snow Cruiser generally failed to operate as hoped under the difficult conditions (the tires, notably smooth to avoid becoming snow encrusted, did not grip the ice) and was eventually abandoned deep in the Antarctica.

For almost two decades, rescue team searched for the Cruiser and it was later discovered under a deep layer of snow in 1958.

It later disappeared again due to shifting ice conditions and remains missing.

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The last photos of the Cruiser.

The Snow Cruiser buried after a 50 mph blizzard had blown through.

Dr. Wade, crew member, leaving the Snow Cruiser through a hatch in the surrounding snow.

Explorer on the beat!



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Next Generation would find that someday, as a huge discovery!

autolearner:
Next Generation would find that someday, as a huge discovery!

Exactly, let's say like 1,000 years time.

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Wow!!!

Okay

Its Explorers again o

Make I park my New Benz here

autolearner:
Next Generation would find that someday, as a huge discovery!

Or when the snow have finished melting, we will see it.

Another one!

It will be discovered later after several decades!

Rich4god:
Or when the snow have finished melting, we will see it.

snow in that region is less likely to melts. It will be a massive increase in sea level

If they really want to find it, just announce cash price for whoever finds it, many will risk their lives and some will die casue antarctica no be normal place

How does this affect the value of crypto ?

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Big vehicle in deed

I know it could only be explorer

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